Enugu varsity to conduct mass burial for 33 corpses abandoned for 18 years
Godfrey Okoye University (GOUNI), Enugu, has given families of 33 corpses abandoned in its hospital mortuary 21 days to evacuate them.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Christian Anieke, stated this at a media briefing on Sunday in Enugu
He said the institution would be forced to conduct a mass burial for the dead persons if their families failed to claim them at the end of the ultimatum.
The vice-chancellor added that some of the corpses had been in the mortuary for more than 18 years.
He stressed that the ultimatum given by the management on November 13 became necessary to enable the university to renovate the mortuary.
Anieke said: “We have gotten court injunction to carry out the mass burial of the 33 abandoned corpses in our teaching hospital morgue
Some of the corpses have been in the mortuary for more than 18 years and it is quite challenging as we want to renovate and make the hospital a befitting one for a teaching hospital
I am appealing to those who have corpses in the mortuary to come and remove them.
